Difficult Quotes - Page 34

• There is also an evil report; light, indeed, and easy to raise, but difficult to carry, and still more difficult to get rid of.

  Hesiod

  Light, Evil, Nicknames

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• Our home, our special country, is for all of us the place where we find liberation; a very difficult word ... that tries to describe something that can't be described but is the only thing worth having.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Country, Home, Special

  Elizabeth Goudge (2017). “Green Dolphin Country”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.

  Andre Norton

  Enemy, Overcoming, Speech

  Andre Norton (2004). “Gods and Androids”, p.336, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• All life worth living is difficult, nobody promised us happiness; it is not a commodity you have earned, or shall ever earn. It is a by-product of brave living, and it never comes in the form we expect, or at the season we hoped for, or as the result of our planning for it.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Brave, Planning, Commodity

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.204, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Friendship, Jobs, Dangerous

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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• It is difficult to grow old gracefully.

  Madame de Stael

  Age, Grows

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• I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

  Liv Ullmann

  Lonely, Loneliness, Believe

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• First, there is the person one thinks he is and the appearance one thinks he has. Then there is the thing one actually is, and there is that which the others think, and here a myriad-faced being arose in her thought, but the second came back as being more difficult to know, for what eyes would see it and where would it stay?

  Elizabeth Madox Roberts

  Eye, Thinking, Firsts

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• I do note that photography, a despised medium to work in, is full of empty phonies and worthless commercial people. That presents quite a challenge to the man who can take delight in being in a very difficult, disdained medium.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Men, People

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• I say half jokingly that photography is the most difficult of the arts. It does require a certain arrogance to see and to choose. I feel myself walking on a tightrope instead of on the ground.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Art, Arrogance

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• To be fair to Pete, I had just come off a very difficult owner relationship with my then head coach and I was looking for a different style. So I didn't give Pete all the power he should have had. I don't think there's any exact formula for how it's done. It's really what fits each individual system.

  Robert Kraft

  Thinking, Should Have, Nfl

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• The greatest decisions I've made in my life are by instinct. I remember when I hired Bill I had a lot of people telling me it was a mistake. But he and I had established a rapport in '96 when he coached the secondary. You need a coach that understands economics, that understands the impact of the salary cap and how to make those difficult decisions that allow you to sustain success over the long term. I don't think there's anyone better than Bill at doing that.

  Robert Kraft

  Mistake, Thinking, Impact

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• Given the scope of these programs, it's understandable that many would be concerned about issues related to privacy. But what's difficult to understand is the motivation of somebody who intentionally would seek to warn the nation's enemies of lawful programs created to protect the American people. And I hope that he is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

  Mitch McConnell

  Motivation, Law, Nsa

  "Earlier Denials Put Intelligence Chief in Awkward Position". Statement to the Press, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• It's only a little difficult to say no. You've got to believe that the work you're doing is ultimately more useful to the world.

  Derek Sivers

  Believe, World, Littles

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• It's easy to make something with a million style-lines. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve, and that's how I approach design - very minimal, pare it down, perfect.

  Keith Michael

  Perfect, Simplicity, Design

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Somebody's got to do it [being Donald Trump]. It's different. It's difficult. There are a lot of wonderful things about it, but always being under scrutiny isn't one of them.

  Donald Trump

  Different, Wonderful, Trump

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• It's difficult to exist as a woman, especially I think as a powerful woman. You want to stand strong and you want to be considered and equal.

  Misty Copeland

  Strong, Powerful, Thinking

  Source: bknation.org

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• I think I'll always be linked to comedy. There is something about it that's such a beautiful thing. The world of drama sneers at it because people assume that it's easy but it's not at all; it's incredibly difficult.

  Doc Brown

  Beautiful, Drama, Thinking

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• For some reason there's this myth that creativity - [especially] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have, or you don't. So when people first start writing, if they write something that's not very good, or if they try and it's difficult, they go, "Oh, I guess I don't have it." That doesn't seem very fair, you have to try and you have to work at it. If we get scared of one bad poem and quit, that's not doing anybody any good.

  Sarah Kay

  Writing, Creativity, People

  Source: saseye.com

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• Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really difficult and take longer than you'd like (it may even be painful), but other times it can be really easy and happen much faster than you expected. But either way - it is important, and it feels so much better when it's done.

  Sarah Kay

  Important, Done, May

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• You can poke fun at some pretty difficult circumstances, and it's just a way to pop the bubble. I don't do that thing onstage usually, but offstage sometimes I might.

  Brian Regan

  Fun, Might, Way

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• I had a lovely experience once in Africa working with the U.N. when a president of a country met me about refugee issues and said ‘What do you do?’ I said ‘I‘m an actor.’ He replied ‘I heard that was a very difficult job and might not be the smartest job to do.’ It was lovely.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Jobs, Issues

  "A Minute With: Angelina Jolie, femme fatale and busy Mom". Interview with John Irish, www.reuters.com. December 9, 2010.

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• It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!

  Marie Corelli

  Winning

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• A man is commanding - a woman is demanding. A man is forceful - a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising - a woman is a ball-breaker. A man is a perfectionist - a woman's a pain in the ass. He's assertive - she's aggressive. He strategizes - she manipulates. He shows leadership - she's controlling. He's committed - she's obsessed. He's persevering - she's relentless. He sticks to his guns - she's stubborn. If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult and impossible.

  Barbra Streisand

  Pain, Gun, Men

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• Courage has become Raiders of the Lost Ark, or riding in spaceships, killing people, taking enormous physical risks. To me, the kind of courage that's really interesting is someone whose spouse has Alzheimer's and yet manages to wake up every morning and be cheerful with that person and respectful of that person and find things to enjoy even though their day is very, very difficult. That kind of courage is really undervalued in our culture.

  Mary Pipher

  Courage, Morning, Alzheimer's

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